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So we seized this woman and asked her who the young man was, but she would not tell us. These things we testify."
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The assembly believed them, because they were elders of the people and judges; and they condemned her to death.
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Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, "O eternal God, who dost discern what is secret, who art aware of all things before they come to be,
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thou knowest that these men have borne false witness against me. And now I am to die! Yet I have done none of the things that they have wickedly invented against me!"